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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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